Het misverstand dat trollen stom zijn is wijdverbreid. Maar trollen zijn in feite hooguit betrekkelijk stom.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
You are worth more than what people say or think of you.